Location: The Heritage Foundation's Lehrman Auditorium
The efforts of the private sector - from individual volunteers
to Fortune 500 corporations to charitable and faith-based
organizations - represent the best of America's response to the
Hurricane Katrina disaster and its aftermath. Often working with
federal, state, and local government agencies, the private sector
demonstrated its ability to flexibly deliver immediate assistance,
even (or perhaps especially) during the largest emergencies. Recent
scientific research on disaster response strongly suggests that a
multijurisdictional, public-private approach should be the
cornerstone of all national response efforts.
Join us as a panel of experts from both the private and public
sectors discusses their own involvement in - and lessons learned
from - public-private efforts to respond to the Hurricane Katrina
disaster.
More About the Speakers
Keynote Speaker:
James Gilmore, III
Former Chair of the Gilmore Commission
Panel:
Becky Baum
Special Assistant to the Executive Director,
Mississippi Department of Finance and Administration
Lieutenant Colonel Pete Schneider
Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff,
Louisiana National Guard Joint Force Headquarters
Dr. J. Doug Stringer
Founder and President,
Turning Point Ministries and
Founder,
Somebody Cares America
Lisa Hamilton
Public Affairs Manager,
United Parcel Service of America
Hosted By
James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies and Director, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies
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